US-ISRAELI WAR IN SUDAN MASKED BY GEORGE CLOONEY

KPFA speaks to Keith Harmon Snow about George Clooney's March 16 arrest and the new anti-Sudan legislation HR 4169 built on the momentum of the phony KONY2012 propaganda about Uganda.

17 March 2012

Photo: Ugandan Presidnet Yoweri Museveni greets the delegation of petrol mercenaries led by Tony Bukingham (far right) in Uganda. Buckingham & Company are tied to networks of shady petroleum companies Heritage Oil & Gas and mercenary firms Sandline International and Branch Energy. These are the people responsible for terrorism in Uganda, Congo and Sudan.

KPFA's
Ann Garrison speaks with Keith Harmon Snow about George Clooney's
arrest and the new legislation HR 4169 regarding Sudan and using the
momentum of phony KONY 2012 propaganda. Click on the link at the bottom of this page to listen to the broadcast. Skip to 00:23:40 for the segment on Sudan.

Here's the original unedited commentary:

KPFA/Ann Garrison:

Keith Harmon Snow, Congressmen Royce and McGovern's proposed House
Resolution 583 calls for action on the momentum built by KONY 2012, and
more funds for logistical, intelligence, and communications support to
the African troops and U.S. Special Forces trying to capture Kony. It
also calls for U.S. restrictions on, quote, "any individuals or
governments, including the Republic of Sudan, found to be providing
training, supplies, financing, or support of any kind to Joseph Kony or
the LRA." Could you comment on Sudan being singled out, even though
none of these troops are hunting Kony in Sudan?

Keith Harmon Snow:

George Clooney on being arrested made the statement: "We ask "[t]he
government in Khartoum to stop RANDOMLY killing its own innocent men,
women and children. Stop raping them and stop starving them."

The Government of Sudan is not RANDOMLY killing people. Clooney's
ostensible outrage is ridiculous. Like Angelina Jolie, Clooney travels
to and from Sudan with official Pentagon and intelligence support and
protection. The United States and Israel and our NATO partners are
involved in a full-scale military conflagration in Sudan involving
guerrilla and covert operations forces. This should be exposed like the
Iran Contra scandal - but of course all the US government officials
know what is going on. The US covert war against Islamic Sudan began in
1990 and through decades of simmering low-intensity warfare we have
slowly but surely eroded the power of the Khartoum government and
usurped their sovereign lands through all kinds of mass atrocities paid
for by US taxpayers.

The very same U.S. and Israeli military
and intelligence officials involved in genocide and war crimes and
regime change in Sudan are responsible for these same atrocities in
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Congo and they are working with George
Clooney. These are the same people tied to phony Kony 2012 agenda. Why
doesn't Clooney protest the 10 million dead in Congo?

The
four biggest propagandists on Sudan are Clooney, intelligence agent John
Prendergast, Smith College professor Eric Reeves and New York Times
columnist Nicholas Kristof. These people imagine themselves taking the
moral high ground. This is the nature of white supremacy. You cannot
trust ANYTHING that they say.

They make up facts, distort
reality, cover-up the massive U.S. military and intelligence and
financial intervention going on right now in Sudan. They are presented
as liberals - even progressives! They are published almost everywhere
in mainstream or alternative media saying whatever they like as if it is
GOSPEL. Of course, look a little deeper and you find extensive right
wing, anti-gay, anti-women, anti-environment, anti-labor union,
pro-corporate interests backing them. George Clooney and Reeves and
Prendergast and Royce and Kristoff should be indicted for supporting war
crimes in Sudan.

KPFA:

Congressman McGovern's
House Resolution 4169 would create sanctions on any government or
individual, quote, "selling, leasing, loaning, exporting, or otherwise
transferring military equipment to the Government of Sudan or any person
controlled or supported by the Government of Sudan," unquote. But,
President Obama added South Sudan to the list of countries eligible to
buy weapons manufactured in the U.S. in the first week of January. H.R.
4169 also proposes sanctions on anyone providing property, goods,
technology, or services of more than half a million dollars to Sudan in
12 months. Do you see anything much different in this playbook than in
that for Iraq, Libya, Iran and Syria?

Keith Harmon Snow:

California Congressman Ed Royce -- former chair of African subcommittee
-- has authored this legislation basically advancing our covert
military campaign for Regime Change in Khartoum. We already control
South Sudan, and parts of Darfur. The United States and Israel, with
the direct involvement of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, assassinated
the Pentagon's former proxy guerrilla leader John Garang because he was
about to become president of a UNIFIED Sudan. John Garang was trained
at the School of the Americas and he did the US and Israel's dirty work.
You see the US/Israeli guerrilla forces - the Sudan People's
Liberation Army - in the stupid posed pictures where the Invisible
Children founders all have guns in their hands but the KONY 2012 doesn't
tell you who these guerrillas are.

Well, the Pentagon and the
Christian right and Israeli Mossad have armed and trained and funded
these SPLA killers, because they don't want a powerful Islamic state
like Sudan. The strategic and tactical invasion and occupation of South
Sudan occurred exactly as it occurred in Rwanda through the genocidal
invasion by Paul Kagame, Rwanda's current dictator. This is exactly what
they are doing in Congo as well.

Congressman Ed Royce is
responsible for genocide and war crimes in Central Africa and the Horn.
You can see this by reading the US Congressional Hearings that took
place at the time Rwanda and Congo were being invaded, and while
Museveni in Uganda was committing genocide against the Acholi in the
north were KONY is the bogeyman, just like President Bashir is the
bogeyman - read terrorist - in Sudan.

So what we are seeing is
simply a sub-saharan extension of the full spectrum military and
propaganda attacks against Iran and Syria, just as we have already seen
with Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq. Khartoum has ties with the
Palestinians, with Eritrea--another country under US attack due to their
attempts to seek autonomy from shock doctrine capitalism, and Iran. But
Khartoum also has tight ties with the Central Intelligence Agency!

This is not the black and white picture George Clooney and Dr. Eric
Reeves and Nicholas Kristoff paint of the Government of Sudan RANDOMLY
raping and starving people. These US agents like Clooney and Mia Farrow
and Reeves don't talk about the Israeli shipments of weapons into south
Sudan, for example, or the huge land grab by Wall Street investors.

This is all part of the Politics of Genocide, and that is the subject
of the documentary film we are making. People can read more about these
issues on my web site Conscious Being Alliance.

KPFA:

That was
Keith Harmon Snow on proposed House Resolutions 538 and 4169 regarding
Sudan and the hunt for Joseph Kony. H.R. 4169, the proposed Sudan
Peace, Security, and Accountability Act of 2012, is sponsored by
Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, and co-sponsored by eight other
members of Congress, including Oakland's Barbara Lee.

6 Comments

You know that one of the organizations you're a part of, Friends of The Congo is partners with Africa Faith and Justice commission, one of the groups that helped to find RESOLVE which apparently, is involved in KONY 2012, yes?
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Great, i wanted to see where you got the idea. No, I am not on their Advisory Board. SourceWatch says I am on the advisory board of Friends of the Congo, but SourceWatch doesn't know what they are talking about. Look at the skimpy, incomplete, profile they have posted about me.

I was a member of Friends of the Congo Advisory Board around 2003 to 2005? I'm sure that is very inexact, but it's not important. What is important is why I am not a member of the FOTC advisory board, and how I came about leaving the board (by my choice).

Also, until this past year I continued to support FOTC in various ways, most poignantly by retaining a project that I had set up in Congo, which was to be run through FOTC.

Around the time that the trailer for their film "Crises in the Congo" came out I separated myself from them. (Perhaps I should have done this sooner.) Have you seen that trailer?

In any case, you are absolutely correct to say that FOTC appears to have direct ties to some rather, how shall we say, dubious? organizations.

Further, the people -- or one major person -- that run SourceWatch had written a story that criticized my involvement with, and the mission of, the anti-FGM organization Sini Sanuman (Healthy Tomorrow) -- who I am also no longer Secretary for -- who I still support as I can. I disagreed with the academic who wrote the article, and his arrogance about a subject he knew nothing aboutm but which he felt the need to slam becuase he perceived (in his intellectual masturbation) himself to take the higher moral ground as regards anti-FGM being imperialist meddling. While some or much anti-FGM work is imperialist and arrogance, Sini Sanuman is not. I don't have much faith in Sourcewatch anymore.